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Over the past few weeks, I've been noticing that posts that get nominated for a Coolcoin award tend to have certain things in common. So far, they seem to have at least 2 of these 3 things: The posts tell a cool story The posts have cool pictures The posts aren't made by Mayne, and aren't...

I hope that you had a fun Father's Day doing geeky stuff with your kids. Personally, I enjoyed taking out my 5 year old daughter for some mini golf and go karting. She still hasn't really figured out the rules of mini golf yet (you know, things like "No, you can't use your hands" or "No, that's...

I got a Facebook ad for this strange IT liquidation auction site in Washington: It looks like they have a bunch of laptops and higher end IT gear. I'd be half-tempted to make a home lab with this stuff, except that you have to go to Washington state to pick it up. I hope that someone local...

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Target Pretty Good deals here. $29 Google Home Mini's with a $10 gift card add-on, and a $250 4K 55" TV. Not sure if it's worth showing up at 6 PM on Thanksgiving and risk getting trampled, though.

Google is offering this "free" one year trial of Google Cloud hosting with a $300 service credit. It reminds me a lot of AWS, but the interface is slightly less complex. I spawned a few CentOS test servers with it, and found it be pretty impressive. Is anyone else using this for anything?

Something tells me that Intel has had these processors on the drawing board for some time, just waiting for AMD to finally release something that competed with their Core i7 desktop processor line: http://hothardware.com/news/monster-intel-12-core-i9-7920x-leaked That 12 core/24 thread i9...